The politician's either-or and the straw man, sentence 10

A straw man changes what someone said into something more extreme, then attacks that instead of the real idea.

Who acts: straw man, someone · What happens: change, say, attack · To what, where: something, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The politician's either-or and the straw man» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straw man, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	straw	straw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 changes	nsubj
4	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 said	obj
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 changes	ccomp
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 something	case
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 said	obl
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 extreme	advmod
11	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 attacks	punct
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 attacks	advmod
14	attacks	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 changes	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 attacks	obj
16	instead	instead	ADV	_	20 idea	advmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 idea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 idea	det
19	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 idea	amod
20	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attacks	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 changes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	a straw man					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	someone		something			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	attack	present	a straw man not said here	that		then	of the real idea	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:178-the-politicians-either-or-and-the-straw-man.lesson:10.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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